Combining Multiple Plant Attributes to Reveal Differences in Community Structure in Two Distant Deserts in Central Asia.

ABSTRACT: International interest is growing in biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in drylands. Desert ecosystems across arid Central Asia are severely affected by global change. Understanding the changes in a plant community is an essential prerequisite to revealing the community assembly mechanism, vegetation conservation, and management. The knowledge of large-scale spatial variation in plant community structure in different Central Asian deserts is still limited. In this study, we selected the Taukum (TD, Kazakhstan) and the Gurbantunggut (GD, China) deserts as the research area, with similar latitudes despite being nearly 1000 km apart. Thirteen and 15 sampling plots were set up and thoroughly investigated. The differences in community structure depending on multiple plant attributes

SUBMITTER: Tao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10537988 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature